:Hinton, Alberta

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The area around present day Hinton deglaciated 12,800–11,600 BCE.{{Cite journal |last=Clark |first=Jorie |last2=Carlson |first2=Anders E. |last3=Reyes |first3=Alberto V. |last4=Carlson |first4=Elizabeth C. B. |last5=Guillaume |first5=Louise |last6=Milne |first6=Glenn A. |last7=Tarasov |first7=Lev |last8=Caffee |first8=Marc |last9=Wilcken |first9=Klaus |last10=Rood |first10=Dylan H. |date=2022-04-05 |title=The age of the opening of the Ice-Free Corridor and implications for the peopling of the Americas |url=https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2118558119 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=119 |issue=14 |pages=e2118558119 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2118558119 |pmc=9168949 |pmid=35312340}} Archeological sites up the Athabasca River from Hinton show repeated habitation from 8,000 BCE until approximately 1500 AD.{{Cite journal |last=Kristensen |first=Todd J. |last2=Allan |first2=Timothy E. |last3=Moffat |first3=Emily |last4=Osicki |first4=Aaron |last5=Fisher |first5=Dale |last6=Woywitka |first6=Robin |last7=Ives |first7=John W. |date=July 24, 2019 |title=Glacier Pass Concretions: A pre-contact toolstone from an alpine quarry complex in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains |url=https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/e456a5eb-d7c3-4d54-84e8-9f32153045f1/resource/39c02b5e-b93b-4087-9271-ecf02cb66891/download/cmsw-occasional-papers-39-kristenson-et-al-glacier-pass-concretions.pdf |journal=Archaeological Survey of Alberta |issue=39 |pages=113-142}}{{Cite journal |last=Hudecek-Cuffe |first=Caroline |date=February 20, 2019 |title=Site 243R (FgQm-59): A stratified campsite on the Snake Indian River in Jasper National Park, Alberta |url=https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/d0f292ec-48f6-4fb5-b89e-27a8fc31d680/resource/032efdd3-6a75-4a55-8baa-fd79935a6bd7/download/hudecek-cuffe-pre-contact-campsite-jasper.pdf |journal=Archaeological Survey of Alberta |issue=38 |pages=102-119}} Other sites around Hinton demonstrate that the foothills were also an important travel and trade corridor for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years prior to European contact, dating to at least 7,000 BCE.{{Cite journal |last=Burchill |first=Alexandra |date=May 26, 2022 |title=Findings and interpretations at GbQn-13, an Early Prehistoric Period site in Alberta’s west central Foothills |url=https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/39be4cdd-ccbc-4185-90b7-34a0c047f152/resource/93a39d79-e487-46fe-be5f-4e7fa2d02811/download/csw-occasional-paper-41-burchill-gbqn-13.pdf |journal=Archaeological Survey of Alberta |issue=41 |pages=30-40}}{{Cite web |title=Expedition Magazine {{!}} Archaeology Along Canada’s Rocky Mountain Eastern Slopes |url=https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/archaeology-along-canadas-rocky-mountain-eastern-slopes/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Expedition Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Snowdon |first=Wallis |date=March 31, 2025 |title=Obsidian artifacts unearthed in Alberta offer new clues on prehistoric trade routes |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-obsidian-research-1.7495831 |access-date=April 28, 2025 |work=CBC News}}{{Sfn|Murphy|2007b|p=29–30}}

Before Europeans arrived in North America, the upper Athabasca region was relatively sparsely inhabited by groups speaking Athabascan/Dene languages (including the Tsuut’ina, Tsa’tinne, and Tse’khene), Siouan languages (specifically Nakoda) and, potentially, Salish languages (such as Secwepemctsín, now present west of the Rockies). European settlement in eastern Canada resulted in waves of western migration of Indigenous groups in the 18th and 19th centuries including Algonquian language-speaking groups (in particular Woodland Cree and Salteaux), Iroquoian speakers, and Métis.{{Cite report |url=https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aswt/worldviews/documents/first_nations_and_metis_peoples_in_alberta.pdf |title=First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum FNMI Worldviews |date=2004 |publisher=Government of Alberta |access-date=April 30, 2025}}{{Cite report |url=https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/6db022c2-cbb8-4f49-a200-4dc3166f8187/resource/b90fe20b-de46-472c-8df8-b02e8024f0ff/download/ir-brief-introduction-to-indigenous-peoples-in-alberta-2022-07.pdf |title=A brief introduction to Indigenous Peoples in Alberta |date=July 21, 2022 |publisher=Indigenous Relations |location=Edmonton |access-date=April 30, 2025}}{{Sfn|Murphy|2007b|p=30–31}}

Around the start of the 19th century, furs supplied by these groups, and a desire to access the Columbia River, encouraged the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company to finally establish trade and supply posts in the vicinity of the Divide. When the Peigan closed Howse Pass to David Thompson, his guide Thomas the Iroquois led a brigade over Athabasca Pass.{{Cite web |title=Athabasca Pass National Historic Site of Canada |url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=28&i=59635 |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=www.pc.gc.ca |language=en}} Shortly after passing through present day Hinton in late 1810, they found what they took to be Iroquois huts.{{Sfn|Payne|2007|p=3–9}} In 1813, François Decoigne built a supply depot on Brûlé Lake, from which a handful of North West Company employees facilitated trips into present day British Columbia. It became known as Jasper House after an early manager, Jasper Hawse; the company moved it further upriver in 1830.{{Sfn|Payne|2007|p=11, 20}} Indigenous people continued to visit, sometimes remaining to hunt and trade with the Jasper House employees. For example, the post’s new factor Henry John Moberly said that in 1855, upon reaching Brûlé Lake, they found Iroquois encamped, waiting to trade with him.{{Sfn|Moberly|1929|p=52}}{{Sfn|Murphy|2007a|p=126}}

Cache Percotte Creek, just east of present-day Hinton{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Natural Resources Canada |title=Place names - Cache Percotte Creek |url=https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=IAKGY |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=geonames.nrcan.gc.ca}} may have been named after an Indigenous smallpox camp during the 1870 epidemic.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-25 |title=Alberta Geographical Names Program {{!}} Alberta.ca |url=https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-geographical-names-program |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=www.alberta.ca |at=Cache Percotte Creek |language=en}} (A 19th century French Canadian word for smallpox was {{lang|fr|picotte}}.{{Cite web |title=The 1885 Montreal Smallpox Epidemic |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Desbiens |first=Karine |date=2020-10-20 |title=Montréal au temps de la variole |url=https://lasentinelle.ca/montreal-au-temps-de-la-variole/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=La Sentinelle - Actualité locale à Chibougamau |language=fr-FR}})

In 1888, Jack Gregg established a trading post at Prairie Creek to serve travellers along the Jasper trail.{{Cn|date=May 2025}} In 1894, trapper and trader Jack Gregg settled on Prairie Creek, {{Convert|3|km|mi}} southwest of present day Hinton.{{Sfn|Hart|1980|p=36–37}}Gainer, Brenda, and Parks Canada. 1981. [https://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/oclc/59738933?lang=en The Human History of Jasper National Park, Alberta]. [Ottawa]: Parks Canada. p. 78–82 To reduce duplication, the creek name was officially changed to Maskuta Creek ({{lang|crk|maskotêw}}: Plains Cree for prairie, bald prairie, or plain{{Cite web |title=itwêwina: the online Cree dictionary |url=https://itwewina.altlab.app/word/maskot%C3%AAw@1/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=itwewina.altlab.app |language=en}}) in 1956,{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Natural Resources Canada |title=Place names - Maskuta Creek |url=https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=IAHTN |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=geonames.nrcan.gc.ca}} although the Cree name had been used much earlier.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-25 |title=Alberta Geographical Names Program {{!}} Alberta.ca |url=https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-geographical-names-program |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=www.alberta.ca |at=Maskuta Creek |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Tyrell |first=Joseph Burr |title=Rapport sur une partie du nord d'Alberta et des portions des districts voisins d'Assiniboia et Saskatchewan. |date=June 1, 1887 |location=Ottawa, Canada |pages=181 |language=French |trans-title=Report on a part of northern Alberta and portions of the adjoining districts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan}}

Jasper Forest Park (renamed Jasper National Park in 1930) was established in 1907; in 1909, the government dispatched John W. McLaggan to buy out and evict Métis homesteaders. Among those removed from the new park was the family of John Moberly (son of Henry John Moberly). In the spring of 1910, they were given $1,000 and a quarter section next to their cousins, the Greggs' homestead.{{Sfn|Murphy|2007a|p=127-130}}{{Cite web |title=John and Mary Gregg with Mr. and Mrs. John Moberly. - Alberta On Record |url=https://www.albertaonrecord.ca/is-jas-pa+20-28?sf_culture=en |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=www.albertaonrecord.ca}}

The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR) saw the establishment of a construction camp at the mouth of Prairie Creek at the Athabasca River in 1908. A {{Convert|245|m|ft|adj=on}} steel trestle bridge was built over the creek and is still in use by the Canadian National Railway today.{{Cite web |title=Alberta's 10 largest railway bridges - Forth Junction |url=https://forthjunction.ca/railway-bridges-alberta.htm |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=forthjunction.ca}}{{Sfn|Talbot|1912|p=309}} In 1911, the GTPR built a station house at mile 978 west of Winnipeg. The station was named Hinton, and the community was born. Mary Schäffer, on her 1911 government-sponsored trip to Maligne Lake, arrived at the end of the line in Hinton in June. The Prairie Creek construction camp was just about to break up and relocate to Moose Lake to support the next stage of construction from Hinton to Tête Jaune Cache. Schäffer wrote that they were glad to leave the, "rubbishy little town to finish its pathetic history."{{Cite book |last=Schäffer |first=Mary T. S. |title=A Hunter of Peace |publisher=Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies |year=2014 |isbn=9780920608586 |edition=2nd |location=Banff, Alberta |pages=159}}

The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) established a parallel line between Edmonton and Tête Jaune Cache. The CNoR ran just north of the GTPR line at Hinton, establishing the stations of Dalehurst ({{Convert|18|km|mi}} northeast of Hinton), Bliss ({{Convert|3|km|mi}} northeast of Hinton), and Dyke (renamed Entrance, now Old Entrance; {{Convert|8|km|mi}} southwest of Hinton).{{Cite map|last=Chalifour|first=J. E.|title=Northern Alberta Disposition of Lands, 1:792,000|date=September 1, 1914|publisher=Department of the Interior of Canada|url=https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:4m90fg78b|access-date=May 2, 2025}} In 1917 when the heavier gauge GTP rail was dismantled and sent to Europe for the war effort,{{Cite journal |last=Clegg |first=Anthony |date=July-August 1959 |title=Canadian National's Edmonton-Red Pass Jct. Line Has Interesting History |url=https://exporail.org/canrail/news_report/crha-news-report-102-1959.pdf |journal=Canadian Railroad Historical Association News Report |issue=102 |pages=82–83 |via=Explorail: The Canadian Railway Museum}} trains used the CNoR line and Dalehurst became the postal station for Hinton; Dyke served as its communications centre.

The Canadian National Railway became the owner of both the CNoR and GTPR, and various portions of both lines were used by the new railway.[https://archive.org/stream/actsofparl1919v01cana#page/76/mode/2up The Grand Trunk Railway Acquisition Act, 1919], S.C. 1919 (2nd sess.), c. 17 , supplemented by [https://archive.org/stream/actsofparl1920v01cana#page/26/mode/2up An Act to confirm the Agreement dated the eighth day of March, 1920, between His Majesty the King and the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada for the acquisition by His Majesty of the capital stock of the said Grand Trunk Railway Company, except the four per cent guaranteed stock], S.C. 1920, c. 13 {{Cite web |title=A Brief History of Alberta's Railway • Alberta Railway Museum |url=https://albertarailwaymuseum.com/brief-history-alberta-railway/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Alberta Railway Museum |language=en-US}} In 1927, the company moved the track back to the better-constructed GTPR grade between Obed and Entrance, and once again the rail line through Hinton was opened.Rutherford, R. L. (6 March 1925). [https://ags.aer.ca/publications/all-publications/rep-11 Geology of the Foothills Belt Between McLeod and Athabasca Rivers], Alberta (Report). p. 3. Retrieved 2 May 2025.

The coal-fired steam engines of the railroads both opened access to, and provided a market for, coal from a thick seam underlying the Hinton area.{{Cite web |title=Steam Locomotives and Railway Expansion - Coal - Alberta's Energy Heritage |url=https://www.history.alberta.ca/energyheritage/coal/the-early-development-of-the-coal-industry-1874-1914/steam-locomotives-and-railway-expansion/default.aspx |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.history.alberta.ca}}{{Cite book |last=Dawson |first=F. M. |title=Geological atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin |last2=Evans |first2=C. G. |last3=Marsh |first3=R. |last4=Richardson |first4=R. |last5=Power |first5=B. |last6=Sweet |first6=A. R. |last7=Edwards |first7=W. A. D. |publisher=Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and Alberta Research Council |year=1994 |at=Scollard Formation |chapter=Chapter 24 - Uppermost Cretaceous and Tertiary Strata |chapter-url=https://ags.aer.ca/node/133}} The Coal Branch was completed in 1912 and created work camps such as Mountain Park, Cadomin, Luscar, Robb, Mercoal, and Coalspur, which grew into communities with populations in the hundreds, surpassing Hinton's. By the late 1920s, the region contributed 22% of Alberta's total coal production.{{Cite web |title=The Coal Branch - Coal - Alberta's Energy Heritage |url=https://www.history.alberta.ca/energyheritage/coal/triumphs-and-tragedies-1914-1930/albertas-coal-town-evolution/the-coal-branch.aspx#page-1 |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.history.alberta.ca}}

Coal had long been reported closer to the Hinton station, along the Athabasca River. For example the priest Pierre-Jean De Smet wrote during his 1845 trip through the area that, "coal abounds east of the Rocky Mountains on the borders of the Missouri and Yellowstone, on the Saskatchewan and Athabasca."{{Sfn|Smet|1905|p=513, 514}} A 1925 report for the Research Council of Alberta said that although prospectors had explored coal indications at the mouths of Happy and Prairie (Maskuta) Creeks, they were not considered practical or economic to exploit at the time.{{Cite report |url=https://ags.aer.ca/publications/all-publications/rep-11 |title=Geology of the Foothills Belt Between McLeod and Athabasca Rivers, Alberta |last=Rutherford |first=R. L. |date=March 6, 1925 |pages=59, 60 |access-date=May 2, 2025}} Coal mining began in Hinton itself when American entrepreneur Frank Seabolt and two partners opened the Hinton Collieries in 1931.{{Sfn|Hart|1980|p=?}} The mine continued to operate despite the Great Depression, which temporarily reduced demand for coal.{{Cite web |title=Contraction and Expansion: 1930-1950 - Coal - Alberta's Energy Heritage |url=https://www.history.alberta.ca/energyheritage/coal/contraction-and-expansion-1930-1950/default.aspx |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.history.alberta.ca}}

At 4:30 pm on March 30, 1938 an explosion in the Hinton Collieries killed five miners and wounded five more.{{Cite news |date=March 31, 1938 |title=Five Killed, Four Injured in Alberta Mine Explosion |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=wJlTAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Hinton,+Alberta+mining&article_id=3833,2845234&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGgNTog_SMAxUWAjQIHYumCr4Q6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=Hinton%2C%20Alberta%20mining&f=false |access-date=April 25, 2025 |work=Regina Leader-Post |pages=1}}{{Cite web |title=Safety - Coal - Alberta's Energy Heritage |url=https://www.history.alberta.ca/energyheritage/coal/contraction-and-expansion-1930-1950/safety/default.aspx#page-3 |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.history.alberta.ca}} The mine's manager L. G. Chavignaud was found to have breached several provisions of the Alberta Mines Act and fined a total of $200.{{Cite news |date=November 23, 1938 |title=Heavily Assessed Mine Manager Is Fined on Charges Arising From Alberta Disaster |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=MKNkAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=hinton+collieries&article_id=5899,2205909&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirgJj_iPSMAxXTHzQIHbBmI_QQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=hinton%20collieries&f=false |access-date=April 25, 2025 |work=The StarPhoenix |pages=1}} In 1940, Chavignaud's hiring as fire boss at the Mountain Park mine sparked a 3-week strike.{{Cite news |date=April 9, 1940 |title=Mountain Park Mine Strike Ends |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=mhpkAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=hinton+collieries&article_id=3212,835276&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirgJj_iPSMAxXTHzQIHbBmI_QQ6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=hinton%20collieries&f=false |access-date=April 25, 2025 |work=The Calgary Herald |pages=3}}

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On September 1, 1954, North Western Pulp and Power entered into an agreement with the province to construct a pulp mill on the Athabasca River, near the hamlet of Hinton. The province leased {{convert|3,000|sqmi}} of pulpwood on condition that the company invest at least $28.5 million in the mill.{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Ron |date=1956-06-27 |title=Hinton: What Is Happening? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IjBkAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Hinton%2C+Alberta%22&pg=PA25&article_id=7171,5513672 |access-date=2025-04-11 |work=The Calgary Herald |pages=25, 36}}

The Calgary-based Athabasca Valley Development Corporation, began plans to provide town services and a shopping centre, prompting the Minister of Municipal Affairs Ted Hinman to clarify that the province was in charge of planning and Hinton would not be a company town.{{Cite news |date=1955-05-03 |title=Province Will Supervise Building of Pulp Mill Town |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyBlAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22town+of+hinton%22+pulp+mill+-regis&pg=PA21&article_id=1109,286201 |access-date=2025-04-11 |work=The Edmonton Journal |pages=21}} In December 1955, Frank. E. Ruben, the vice president and general manager of Athabasca Valley Development Corporation announced plans to build 500 houses in the new town.{{Cite news |date=1955-12-14 |title=Plan 500 Homes, Pulp Mill Town |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CmxjAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22town+of+hinton%22+pulp+mill+-regis&pg=PA6&article_id=7269,1885542 |access-date=2025-04-11 |work=The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix |pages=6}} Ruben, who was also the Chairman of the Board of North Western Pulp and Power, followed that up with an announcement that the pulp mill would be expanded within 18 months to a total cost of $100 million and that the town would be named New Hinton. This was swiftly denied by Minister of Lands and Forests Norman Willmore. Ruben responded that, "the matter is entirely out of Mr. Willmore's department," and clarified that he was expressing his personal opinion that they would, "expand the mill at the earliest possible date." The Financial Post, in 1959, reported that the pulp mill cost $42 million.{{Cite news |date=1959-09-19 |title=Alberta's 'New Industry' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmo_AAAAIBAJ&dq=%22town+of+hinton%22+pulp+mill+-regis&pg=PA60&article_id=5906,4822528 |access-date=2025-04-10 |work=The Financial Post |pages=60}}

The New Town of Hinton was incorporated on November 1, 1956. The community grew rapidly, as did a new village to the east called Drinnan. On March 27, 1957, the two communities amalgamated,{{cite web |author=Province of Alberta |date=1957-03-27 |title=Order in Council (O.C.) 494-57, New Town Established (Amalgamation of Hinton and Drinnan) |url=http://www.municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/TOWN/0151/Hinton_Gaz_OC_494_57_1957_No13.pdf |access-date=April 23, 2010}} with a population of about 3,500.{{Cite news |date=1958-07-24 |title=Hinton Serves as Subject of Industrial Development Survey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u-xkAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22town+of+hinton%22+pulp+mill+-regis&pg=PA3&article_id=3879,4445865 |work=The Edmonton Journal |pages=3}} The mill was completed in April 1957, with the first pulp produced on May 29.{{Cite news |date=1957-06-05 |title=New Pulp Mill Now Near Output Peak |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oYBlAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Hinton%2C+Alberta%22+pulp+mill&pg=PA55&article_id=5931,724833 |access-date=2025-04-11 |work=The Vancouver Sun |pages=15}}{{Cite news |last=French |first=Janet |date=2024-03-20 |title=New owners will use Hinton pulp mill to make sustainable packaging |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/new-owners-will-use-hinton-pulp-mill-to-make-sustainable-packaging-1.7150238 |work=CBC News}} It became Alberta's first pulp mill.{{Cite web |title=Alberta's First Pulp Mill Opens New Forestry Markets |url=https://discoverapega.ca/stories/albertas-first-pulp-mill-opens-new-forestry-markets/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=discoverAPEGA |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Hinton |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hinton |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}} By 1959, Northwest Pulp and Power employed 562 people at the mill, with a further 600 in woodland operations.{{Cite news |date=September 19, 1959 |title=Alberta's 'New Industry' |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=jmo_AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA60&dq=Hinton+pulp+mill+expansion&article_id=4670,4822522&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCmoS1ypmNAxVoweYEHXJ9OqUQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=Hinton%20pulp%20mill%20expansion&f=false |access-date=May 10, 2025 |work=Financial Post |pages=60}}

The New Town of Hinton incorporated as the Town of Hinton on December 29, 1958, and William A. Switzer was elected as its first mayor.{{Cite book |title=The Canadian parliamentary guide |date=2005 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-1-4144-0141-6 |editor-last=Batten |editor-first=Donna |edition=2005 |series=Gale eBooks |location=Detroit, Mich |editor-last2=Gale (Firm)}} Three years later, the 1961 Canadian census recorded Hinton's population as 3,529.{{Cite report |url=https://archive.org/details/1961925391963engfra |title=1961 Census of Canada Recensement du Canada |date=1963 |publisher=Dominion Beureau of Statistics |issue=1.1 |volume=10 |at=6-83 |language=English, French |access-date=April 21, 2025}}

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On February 8, 1986, a Canadian National Railway freight train collided with a Via Rail passenger train called the Super Continental, killing twenty-three people. The Hinton train collision was the deadliest rail disaster in Canada since the Dugald rail accident of 1947, which had thirty-one fatalities, and was not surpassed until the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster in 2013, which resulted in forty-seven fatalities. It was surmised that the accident was a result of the crew of the freight train becoming incapacitated, and the resulting investigations revealed serious flaws in Canadian National Railway's labour practices.{{cite web |url=http://www.hinton.ca/index.aspx?NID=148 |publisher=Town of Hinton |title=Hinton Train Collision |access-date=2011-01-29 |archive-date=2012-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416133416/http://www.hinton.ca/index.aspx?NID=148 }}{{Cite book |last=Kanada |url=https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.818270/publication.html |title=Report of the commissioner / Commission of Inquiry Hinton Train Collision |date=1986 |publisher=Minister of Supply and Services Canada |isbn=978-0-660-12227-4 |editor-last=Foisy |editor-first=René P. |location=Ottawa |pages=31, 58, 59}}{{Cite news |title='I remember every February the 8th': Alberta's deadliest train crash |url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/i-remember-every-february-the-8th-albertas-deadliest-train-crash |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230307212935/https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/i-remember-every-february-the-8th-albertas-deadliest-train-crash |archive-date=2023-03-07 |access-date=2025-04-24 |work=calgaryherald |language=en-CA}}

Hinton lies in the Alberta Plateau Benchlands physiographic subdivision of the Interior Plains. Soils around town are influenced by deposits of carbonate-rich, wind-blown sand and silt which usually have surface textures of loam, sandy loam or silt loam. They are moderately alkaline, in contrast to the varying, mostly moderate acidity which prevails beyond the zone of calcareous aeolian material.{{cite web |title=Dumanski, Macyk, Veauvy and Lindsay, 1972. Soil Survey and Land Evaluation of the Hinton-Edson Area, Alberta |url=http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/soil/survey-reports/ab31/ab31_report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330175940/http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/soil/survey-reports/ab31/ab31_report.pdf |archive-date=2015-03-30}}

Under the Köppen climate classification, Hinton is classified as Dfc: subarctic, a subcategory of the continental climates.{{Cite web |last=Canada |first=Natural Resources |title=Climatic Regions - Open Government Portal |url=https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/09ffaeb5-ec8f-5bb5-bdcb-3436ccf26f58 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=open.canada.ca}}{{Cite web |title=Canada Koppen-Geiger Climate Classification Map |url=https://www.plantmaps.com/koppen-climate-classification-map-canada.php |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=plantmaps.com |language=en}} This is defined as having its coldest month averaging below {{Convert|0|C|F}}, three months averaging above {{Convert|10|C|F}}, and no season contributing more than 70% of the annual precipitation.{{Cite journal |last1=Peel |first1=M. C. |last2=Finlayson |first2=B. L. |last3=McMahon |first3=T. A. |date=2007-10-11 |title=Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification |url=https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/11/1633/2007/ |journal=Hydrology and Earth System Sciences |language=English |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P |issn=1027-5606}}

The closest Environment Canada weather station was located at Entrance, about {{cvt|10|km}} southwest of Hinton. It supplied climate normals data up to 2010.{{Cite web |title=Canadian Climate Normals 1981_2010 Station Inventory |url=https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_e.html |access-date=April 23, 2025 |website=climate.weather.gc.ca |publisher=Environment Canada |at=1981-2010 |format=XLS}} Current Environment Canada weather forecasts{{Cite web |last=Canada |first=Environment |date=2013-04-16 |title=Hinton, AB - 7 Day Forecast - Environment Canada |url=https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=53.400,-117.572 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=weather.gc.ca}} and climate normals data up to 2020 rely on the Jasper Warden Station near Maligne Canyon, {{Convert|61|km|mi}} southwest of Hinton.{{Cite web |title=Canadian Climate Normals 1991_2020 Station Inventory |url=https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_e.html |access-date=April 23, 2025 |website=climate.weather.gc.ca |publisher=Environment Canada |at=1991-2020 |format=XLS}}

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In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Hinton had a population of 9,817 living in 4,006 of its 4,405 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:9817-9882}}|9882|1}} from its 2016 population of 9,882. With a land area of {{cvt|33.32|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|9817|33.32|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000248 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=February 9, 2022}}

The 2021 census also found that 52.1% of the population in Hinton were men (Canada-wide: 49.3%{{Cite web |date=April 27, 2022 |title=Comparison Age and Gender Pyramid |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/dv-vd/pyramid/index-eng.cfm |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=statcan.gc.ca}}). Hinton's proportion of population that are under 15 years of age was 18.8% (Canada-wide: 16.3%), between 15 and 64 was 68.0% (Canada-wide: 64.8%), and 65 or over was 13.2% (Canada-wide: 19.0%).Statistics Canada. 2023. (table). Census Profile. 2021 Census of Population. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-316-X2021001. Ottawa. Released November 15, 2023. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E (accessed April 24, 2025).{{Cite web |title=Census of Population |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=statscan.gc.ca}}

The median employment income in 2020 in people 15 years or older was $45,600 in Hinton (Canada-wide: $37,200). The percentage of 25–64 year olds in Hinton who completed high school was 77.9% (Canada-wide: 88.4%). Hinton's English-French bilingualism rate was 8.5% (Canada-wide: 18%). Immigrants make up 11.3% of Hinton's population (Canada-wide: 23.0%).

In the Canada 2016 Census conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Hinton recorded a population of 9,882 living in 3,930 of its 4,343 total private dwellings, a {{percentage|{{#expr:9882-9640}}|9640|1}} increase from its 2011 population of 9,640. With a land area of {{cvt|33.52|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|9882|33.52|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2016.{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=86&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 8, 2017 | access-date=February 8, 2017}}

The population of the Town of Hinton according to its 2009 municipal census is 9,825.{{cite web |url=http://municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/documents/LGS/2009pop.pdf |author=Alberta Municipal Affairs |title=Alberta 2009 Official Population List |date=2009-09-15 |access-date=2010-09-14}} The census originally counted 9,812 people within the town limits{{cite web|url=http://www.town.hinton.ab.ca/files/%7B2BE8B17D-FB27-4A96-BEA4-384D5BA14D8C%7D2009%2007%2015%20Census%20News%20Release.pdf|title=Hinton's Population is Up!|publisher=Town of Hinton|date=2009-07-25|access-date=2009-08-26}} but an additional 13 were added when a long-standing annexation application was approved shortly after the census was conducted.

It is the site of the Foothills Ojibway Society (non-status First Nation).

The Performing Arts Theatre of Hinton exhibits films, live theatre, music, dance, and other events.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-28 |title=Events |url=https://www.pathinton.ca/events |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=The PATH |language=en-US}} The Wild Mountain Music Festival is held on the third weekend of July across the Athabasca River from Hinton at the Entrance Ranch. The 3-day event has 2 concert stages, a beer tent, food stalls, tent and RV camping, and runs a shuttle between Hinton and the festival. The annual event began in 2008.{{Cite web |title=Info/About |url=https://wildmtnmusic.ca/info-about/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Location Info |url=https://wildmtnmusic.ca/location-info/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |language=en-US}}

The Northern Rockies Museum of Culture and Heritage is in the original GTP Hinton station. It was moved from its original location across the highway and, after renovations, opened May 20, 2017.{{Cite web |title=Northern Rockies Museum Exhibits {{!}} Explore Local History |url=https://www.northernrockiesmuseum.com/exhibits |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Northern Rockies Museum |language=en-CA}}

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The Beaver Boardwalk consists of three kilometres (1.9 miles) of boardwalk through the forest, meadow, and wetland near Maxwell Lake, at the south side of town. It is named for the active beaver lodge that it passes beside.{{Cite web |title=Beaver Boardwalk {{!}} Hinton, AB - Official Website |url=https://www.hinton.ca/852/Beaver-Boardwalk |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=www.hinton.ca}} Large sections of the boardwalk were rebuilt in early 2025, with more rehabilitation planned for future winters.{{Cite web |last=Initiative |first=The Local Journalism |date=2025-04-15 |title=Beaver Boardwalk rehab in Hinton nearing completion for season |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/beaver-boardwalk-rehab-in-hinton-nearing-completion-for-season/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=CTVNews |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Upcoming Beaver Boardwalk Maintenance |url=https://www.hinton.ca/CivicSend/ViewMessage/Message/230023 |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=www.hinton.ca |language=en}}

The Hinton Mountain Bike Park has 23 trails of varying difficulty, a skills area, pump track, and jumps.{{Cite web |title=Hinton Bike Park |url=https://www.bikehinton.com/hinton-bike-park |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=bikehinton.com {{!}} Hinton Mountain Bike Association |language=en-CA}} The bike park is connected to the Happy Creek trail network, which has an additional 39 maintained trails.{{Cite web |title=Happy Creek Trail System |url=https://www.bikehinton.com/happycreek |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=bikehinton.com {{!}} Hinton Mountain Bike Association |language=en-CA}} The Bighorn Ridge trails begin {{Convert|3.5|km|mi}} south of the bike park and offers an additional {{Convert|33|km|mi}} of maintained mountain bike trail.{{Cite web |title=Bighorn Ridge |url=https://www.bikehinton.com/bighorn |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=bikehinton.com {{!}} Hinton Mountain Bike Association |language=en-CA}}

Hinton has both an 18-hole golf course{{Cite web |title=Hinton Golf Club |url=https://www.hintongolfclub.com/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=Hinton Golf Club |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-21 |title=Town of Hinton purchases additional land at Hinton Golf Course |url=https://www.fitzhugh.ca/hinton-news/town-of-hinton-purchases-additional-land-at-hinton-golf-course-10411402 |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=Jasper Fitzhugh |language=en}} and an 18-hole disc golf course.{{Cite web |title=Course |url=http://www.hintondiscgolf.com/course.html |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=HINTON DISC GOLF ASSOCIATION |language=en}} The town has numerous parks with a boat launch, rodeo grounds, sports fields, picnic facilities, and trails.{{Cite web |title=Parks & Trails {{!}} Hinton, AB - Official Website |url=https://www.hinton.ca/215/Parks-Trails |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=www.hinton.ca}}

The Dr. Duncan Murray Recreation Centre has a 25m pool, sauna, hot tub, kids pool,{{Cite web |title=Aquatics {{!}} Hinton, AB - Official Website |url=https://www.hinton.ca/213/Aquatics |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=www.hinton.ca}} two skating rinks,{{Cite web |title=Arenas {{!}} Hinton, AB - Official Website |url=https://www.hinton.ca/745/Arenas |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=www.hinton.ca}} a bouldering wall, and courts for basketball, racquetball, and squash.{{Cite web |title=Bouldering Wall & Courts {{!}} Hinton, AB - Official Website |url=https://www.hinton.ca/642/Bouldering-Wall-Courts |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=www.hinton.ca}} It also includes the Hinton Municipal Library.{{Cite web |title=Contact |url=https://hintonlibrary.org/Contact |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=hintonlibrary.org |language=en}}

Hinton is a short drive from several popular parks and recreation areas:{{Citation |title=Hinton & The Alberta Northern Rockies 2022 Visitor Guide |date=2022 |url=https://www.hinton.ca/DocumentCenter/View/5440/Visitor-Guide?bidId= |publisher=Hinton and District Chamber of Commerce}}

• Jasper National Park's east gate is {{Convert|27|km|mi}} southwest on Highway 16.
• Obed Lake Campground is {{Convert|30|km|mi}} east on Highway 16.
• The Hinton Nordic Centre is {{Convert|22|km|mi}} northwest on Highway 40.
• Switzer Park Visitor Centre is {{Convert|27|km|mi}} northwest.
• Rock Lake is {{Convert|73|km|mi}} northwest.
• Whitehorse Creek Campground is {{Convert|57|km|mi}} south on Highway 40.
• Cardinal Divide is {{Convert|73|km|mi}} south

Hinton is a staging area for expeditions into the Willmore Wilderness Park, via Rock Lake or Big Berland Provincial Recreation Area. The other common staging area is Grande Cache.

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Hinton Transit is the municipal public transportation service, operated under contract by First Student Canada, which is responsible for providing the vehicles, drivers and maintenance.

The bus service operates on Monday to Saturday from 6 am to noon and 3 to 9 pm. No service is provided on Sunday or statutory holidays. It runs a single 40–50 minute loop.{{Cite web |title=Hinton Transit {{!}} Hinton, AB - Official Website |url=https://www.hinton.ca/259/Transportation-Transit |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.hinton.ca}}

There is also an accessible, door-to-door transit service available upon request for residents with physical and cognitive disabilities called The Freedom Express.

Regional bus service is provided by SunDog Transportation and Tour Co. which has a daily route between Edmonton and Jasper, with one stop in Hinton.{{Cite web |title=Edmonton to Jasper Bus {{!}} SunDog Transportation and Tour Co. |url=https://www.sundogtours.com/package/jasper-hinton-edson-edmonton |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.sundogtours.com |language=en}} A provincially-funded route between Jasper and Hinton is planned for summer 2025.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-22 |title=Muni seeking contractor for transit service between Jasper and Hinton |url=https://www.fitzhugh.ca/municipal-council/muni-seeking-contractor-for-transit-service-between-jasper-and-hinton-10555241 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Jasper Fitzhugh |language=en}}

As a flag stop, Via Rail's The Canadian calls at the Hinton station two times per week, in each direction.{{Cite web |title=Hinton train station {{!}} VIA Rail |url=https://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/stations/rockies-and-pacific/hinton |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.viarail.ca |language=en-ca}}

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Emergency and other medical care is provided at the Hinton Healthcare Centre. The hospital offers a wide range of diagnostic testing, chronic and acute care, and recovery services.{{Cite web |last=Services |first=Alberta Health |title=Hinton Healthcare Centre |url=https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/findhealth/facility.aspx?id=1000403 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Alberta Health Services |language=en}} As of 2022, it has 23 acute care beds.{{Cite web |date=May 23, 2024 |title=Hospital Beds Staffed and In Operation, 2022–2023 |url=https://www.cihi.ca/en/access-data-and-reports/data-tables |access-date=April 23, 2025 |website=Canadian Institute for Health Information |format=XLS}} Beginning in 2024, physician shortages have resulted in repeated closures of the emergency department, prompting the town to declare a local healthcare crisis.{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Lisa |date=July 4, 2024 |title=Alberta town declares health crisis, must pay to keep clinic open as doctor roster dwindles |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-hinton-health-crisis-doctor-roster-1.7254031 |access-date=April 23, 2025 |work=CBC News}}{{Cite web |title=Hinton declares local health-care crisis over 'terrifying' family doctor shortage {{!}} Globalnews.ca |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/10578992/hinton-health-care-crisis-family-doctors/ |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Global News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Phil |date=2024-06-26 |title=Alberta town says lack of family doctors prompted healthcare crisis |url=https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/06/26/hinton-alberta-healthcare-crisis-family-doctors/ |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=CityNews Calgary |language=en}}

Education in Hinton includes:{{cite web|url=https://www.hinton.ca/1208/Education |title=Education |access-date=August 20, 2023}}

• Grande Yellowhead Public School Division No. 77
• Crescent Valley Elementary School (K-7)
• Mountain View Elementary School (K-7 English, French)
• Harry Collinge High School (8-12 English, French)

• Evergreen Catholic Separate School Division
• St. Gregory Catholic Elementary School (K-4)
• Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic School (5-12)

• Post secondary
• Northwestern Polytechnic
• Hinton Employment and Learning Place
• Hinton Training Centre
• Northern Lakes College

One weekly newspaper is produced in Hinton: the [http://hintonvoice.ca Hinton Voice], an independent newspaper that started up in June 2009. Hinton also had a weekly tabloid-format newspaper called the Hinton Parklander, which was founded in 1955 and printed its final issue on January 13, 2020.{{Cite news |date=January 8, 2020 |title=Postmedia to close Alberta community newspapers in Hinton, Edson and Lacombe |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edson-hinton-lacombe-weekly-newspapers-postmedia-1.5418450 |access-date=April 23, 2025 |work=CBC News}}

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• CFXH-FM 97.5 Newcap Broadcasting (Stingray Radio)
• CFHI-FM 104.9 Newcap Broadcasting

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• Bob Nystrom (born 1952), Swedish-Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Dave Scatchard (born 1976), professional National Hockey League ice hockey player
• Glenn Taylor (born 1961/62), former leader of the Alberta Party, former mayor

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{{Cite book|last=Hart|first=Hazel|title=History of Hinton: Gateway to the Rockies, Hinton, Alberta, on the Yellowhead|ref={{SfnRef|Hart|1980}}|publisher=self-published|year=1980|ISBN=9780889252028}}

{{Cite book |title=Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries in the Human History of the Upper Athabasca |publisher=University of Alberta Press |year=2007 |isbn=9780888644831 |editor-last=MacLaren |editor-first=I.S. |location=Edmonton, Alberta |url=https://archive.org/details/culturingwildern00macl |url-access=registration}}

• {{Cite book |last=Payne |first=Michael |title=Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries in the Human History of the Upper Athabasca | ref={{SfnRef|Payne|2007}} | publisher=University of Alberta Press |year=2007 |editor-last=MacLaren |editor-first=I.S. |location=Edmonton, Alberta |pages=1–40 |chapter=The Fur Trade on the Upper Athabasca River, 1810-1910}}
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{{Cite book|last=Moberly|first=Henry John|title=When fur was king |ref={{SfnRef|Moberly|1929}}|publisher=J.M. Dent & Sons Limited|year=1929|location=Toronto, London|URL=https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0372569}}

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{{Cite book |last=Talbot |first=Frederick Arthur Ambrose|title= The making of a great Canadian railway; the story of the search for and discovery of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction of the nearly completed Grand trunk Pacific railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country|ref={{SfnRef|Talbot|1912}}| publisher= Seeley, Service & co. limited|year=1912|location=London|URL=https://archive.org/details/makingofgreatcan00talb}}

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